As the above comments have mentioned, cold water closes pores and hot water opens pores. Use hot water to drain it out once infected and scrub like crazy. It will hurt but I've used this method to get rid of it completely in 2 - 3 showers. You will feel and smell the oil drip from your skin. It is really sticky so either get some really strong soap or tecnu to wash it down the drain.

When it is on your skin was off with cold water within 30 minutes of contact and you will be fine. I am fairly allergic and I've pulled poison ivy up by hand on occasion using this technique with barely a trace of irritation. It was not even noticeable. Again, either use something strong like dish washing soap that cuts grease or tecnu.

The best method that I've found for pulling poison ivy is the above technique plus using two contractors bags flipped inside out to pull it out, over a period no greater than 20-ish minutes. Be sure to wash your eyes and upper arms as well because when the roots or leaves break - which they undoubtedly will while pulling - the irritant will drift to other parts of your skin and these I have found these parts of the body to be the most vulnerable.

you can purchase poison ivy extract the oil that is and ingest it to build up an imunity to it but this needs to be done early in the spring...i get it bad but havent tried this method yet...you can search about it online

To the people who say that they are immune to poison ivy, be careful. I always was, up until a few years ago. I could rip it up with my bear hands, walk through a giant patch of it in a pair of flip-flops. When ever we had a site with poison ivy to clear I would go in a few days before the guys and clear out the ivy, then they would come in to do the rest of the work. I never once cought it. Then about two years ago I got it bad. We have no clue what was different that time that caused me to get it. Now I'm 10x more likely to get it than my other guys.

Why do people not respect us as they do other tradesmen? Because every Tom, Dick, and Harry doesn't think he can be a plumber or electrician!

To the people who say that they are immune to poison ivy, be careful. I always was, up until a few years ago. I could rip it up with my bear hands, walk through a giant patch of it in a pair of flip-flops. When ever we had a site with poison ivy to clear I would go in a few days before the guys and clear out the ivy, then they would come in to do the rest of the work. I never once cought it. Then about two years ago I got it bad. We have no clue what was different that time that caused me to get it. Now I'm 10x more likely to get it than my other guys.

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Same with me, doctor said over the years that I had just build up more than my natural immunity could resist. I'm not hyper sensitive now but I certainly can't rip it out with bare hands anymore.

prednisone steroid, or a cortozone shot. nothing else has worked for me...not bleach, gasoline, taking a layer of skin off....nothing. its something we have to deal with in this industry....if its tooo much. then your in the wrong industry.

There is a vaccine now for poison ivy. You can call Anderson Compounding Pharmacy in Bristol Tennessee for information on it. I have been taking it for years. You do need a script for it. It's only like $20. It's changed my life. I use to be covered in it every year. This stuff really works. I can't remember the name of it. You have to take it orally. Three doses once a week and you have to take it in January and February. Don't question it. It works. I'm sure any compounding pharmacy could make it. It is a life changer I can assure you.